October 11, 2011
FW: Interesting Facts About Sesame Street
Archive for the ‘Informational’ Category.
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August 27, 2011
FW: Poor Man’s Liquid Nitrogen
It is probably wise to heed the warning at the beginning of this video!
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August 15, 2011
FW: 10 Amazing Science Tricks
Some great tricks to learn for your next party!
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July 27, 2011
FW: Flour for Burns
FEF Editors: Snopes debunks the below home remedy. However, they also share a similar remedy (shown at the end of the post), which was found in 1848 medical journal. So, we are publishing this forwarded email and letting you decide for yourself.
Impressive! Why did we never hear of this before??!!
I’ve always just run it under the cold tap water .
Some time ago I was cooking some corn and stuck my fork in the boiling water to see if the corn was ready. I missed and my hand went into the boiling water! A friend of mine, who was a Vietnam vet, came into the house, just as I was screaming, and asked me if I had some plain old flour. I pulled out a bag and he stuck my hand in it. He told me to keep my hand in the flour for 10 minutes which I did.
He said that in Vietnam, there was a guy on fire and in their panic, they threw a bag of flour all over him to put the fire out. Well, it not only put the fire out, but he never even had a blister!!!!
Long story short, I put my hand in the bag of flour for 10 minutes, pulled it out and did not even have a red mark or a blister and absolutely NO PAIN. Now, I keep a bag of flour in the fridge and use it for every time I burn myself (cold flour feels even better than room temperature flour).
I use the flour and have never ONCE had I ever had even a red spot/burn mark, or a blister! I even burnt my tongue once, put the flour on it for about 10 minutes … the pain was gone and no
burn. Try it ! Experience a miracle! Keep a bag of flour in your fridge and you will be happy you did!
P.S. Don’t run your burn area under cold water first, just put it directly into the flour for 10 minutes.
SNOPES 1848 REMEDY
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July 9, 2011
FW: Amazing Simple Home Remedies
THESE REALLY WORK!! I checked this out on Snopes and it’s for real!
AMAZING, SIMPLE HOME REMEDIES:
1. AVOID CUTTING YOURSELF WHEN SLICING VEGETABLES – BY GETTING SOMEONE ELSE TO HOLD THE VEGETABLES WHILE YOU CHOP.
2. AVOID ARGUMENTS WITH THE FEMALES ABOUT LIFTING THE TOILET SEAT BY USING THE SINK.
3. FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE SUFFERERS ~ SIMPLY CUT YOURSELF AND BLEED FOR A FEW MINUTES, THUS REDUCING THE PRESSURE ON YOUR VEINS. REMEMBER TO USE A TIMER.
4. A MOUSE TRAP PLACED ON TOP OF YOUR ALARM CLOCK WILL PREVENT YOU FROM ROLLING OVER AND GOING BACK TO SLEEP AFTER YOU HIT THE SNOOZE BUTTON.
5. IF YOU HAVE A BAD COUGH, TAKE A LARGE DOSE OF LAXATIVES. THEN YOU’LL BE AFRAID TO COUGH.
6. YOU NEED ONLY TWO TOOLS IN LIFE – WD-40 AND DUCT TAPE. IF IT DOESN’T MOVE AND SHOULD, USE THE WD-40. IF IT SHOULDN’T MOVE AND DOES, USE THE DUCT TAPE.
7. IF YOU CAN’T FIX IT WITH A HAMMER, YOU’VE GOT AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE SLINKIES – NOT REALLY GOOD FOR ANYTHING BUT THEY BRING A SMILE TO YOUR FACE WHEN THEY’RE PUSHED DOWN THE STAIRS.
SOME ADDITIONAL ADVICE: NEVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, TAKE A LAXATIVE AND SLEEPING PILLS ON THE SAME NIGHT
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June 29, 2011
FW: The Amazing Life of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was a remarkable man who began his learning very early in life and never stopped. If only all of us could be the type of individual Thomas Jefferson was. May his life be an example for us to be better citizens and people!
- At 5, he began studying under his cousins’ tutor.
- At 9, he studied Latin, Greek and French.
- At 14, he studied classical literature and additional languages.
- At 16, he entered the College of William and Mary.
- At 19, he studied Law for 5 years, studying under George Wythe.
- At 23, he started his own law practice.
- At 25, he was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
- At 31, he wrote the widely circulated “Summary View of the Rights of British America” and retired from his law practice.
- At 32, he was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.
- At 33, he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
- At 33, he took three years to revise Virginia’s legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.
- At 36, he was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.
- At 40, he served in Congress for two years.
- At 41, he was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.
- At 46, he served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.
- At 53, he served as Vice President and was elected President of the American Philosophical Society.
- At 55, he drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party.
- At 57, he was elected the third President of the United States.
- At 60, he obtained the Louisiana Purchase , doubling the nation’s size.
- At 61, he was elected to a second term as President.
- At 65, he retired to Monticello.
- At 80, he helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.
- At 81, he almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president.
- At 83, he died, on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams.
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June 25, 2011
FW: Proof of BigFoot
If these videos don’t convince you that there might be possibility of a bigfoot (particularly the second video, which shows a hand found that is not human) than nothing will!
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May 26, 2011
FW: How To Really Walk On Water
A few days ago we posted about Liquid Mountaineering or the sport of running on water. Below is a video forwarded to us on exactly what it requires for humankind to really walk on water!
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April 19, 2011
FW: Confusing Language
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this. You think English is easy? No, but it’s fun.
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8 ) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let’s face it – English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people not computers and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why when the stars are out they are visible but when the lights are out they are invisible.
PS. – Why doesn’t ‘Buick’ rhyme with ‘quick’?
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March 28, 2011
FW: 1000 Years of War in 5 Minutes
This animation shows all important battles that took place over the last ten centuries (up until 2008). The sizes of the explosions and labels are proportional to the number of casualties. The music is “Ride Of The Valkyries” by Richard Wagner. The data comes from the Wikipedia article, List of Battles.
